CVSNT development began as simply a port of CVS 1.10 and then 1.11 to Windows, however it quickly became clear that vital new security and features were being added to CVSNT that CVS users on all platforms required. CVSNT then became available for Unix as well as Windows and now supports most of the active software development platforms available.

March Hare Software (UK) in partnership with the CVSNT development community are continuing to develop CVSNT; adding features, improving security and increasing the number of supported platforms.

For a quick comparison1 of some of the advantages of using CVSNT over CVS please see the panel to the right.

1 This comparison is based on material collected from the Subversion project as of May 20, 2005 at http://subversion.tigris.org/ and http://subversion.tigris.org/roadmap.html. It does not represent an independant or exhaustive comparison between CVSNT and Subversion. We have specifically excluded subjects that are promoted as features of Subversion that it is our opinion are limitations or where a comparison cannot be directly made between the products.